How to pluck a goose [graphic]

Description

Title: How to pluck a goose [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Williamson, T., publisher.
Published / Created: [10 June 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 10, 1802, by T. Williamson, No. 20 Strand, London
Abstract: Three older ladies and one gentleman in military uniform sit at a table playing cards. Speech balloons from the ladies berate him for his lack of card playing skills
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.5 x 32.4 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 34.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.2 x 32.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Watermarks (Paper) W. Elgar
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Gambling
Playing cards
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Gambling
Playing cards
England > 1802
England > London > 1802
W. Elgar
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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